Management & Maintenance

This department of Rental Housing Journal is your source for property management and maintenance information. Whether you’re an independent landlord, portfolio manager, on-site community manager, leasing agent or apartment maintenance professional, the site is dedicated to bringing tips, best practices and information to help make your job easier and keep you up to date and educated.

A landlord wants to make new rules after tenants moved in because tenants refused landlord request to move an item in yard is the question this week for Ask Landlord Hank.

Can I Make New Rules After Tenants Move In?

A landlord wants to make new rules after tenants moved in because tenants refused landlord request to move an item in yard is the question this week for Ask Landlord Hank. Remember Hank is...
Three questions about employment involving potential applicants income for landlords and investors to check in today’s challenging market about tenants.

Tough Times Ahead: Analyze More Than Just A Tenant Applicant’s Income

Three questions about employment involving potential applicants income for landlords and investors to check in today’s challenging market about tenants. By Scot Aubrey Everyone loves a good survivor story.  Whether it is a group of 12...
Here are some of the impacts of the multifamily labor shortage and how technology and automation are alleviating the burden.

Solving The Multifamily Labor Shortage With Technology

Here are some of the impacts of the multifamily labor shortage and how technology and automation are alleviating the burden. By Morgan Dzak The multifamily industry has been hesitant to discuss automation in previous years, fearing...
Why Customer Service Is An Important Part of Fair Housing

Why Customer Service Is An Important Part of Fair Housing

Here are 3 aspects that can lead to excellent customer service because when our customers or residents feel well-cared-for, they are less likely to file a fair housing complaint. By The Fair Housing Institute It’s easy...
A look at why renters move, affordability and how your property can prove its value to renters in a time of skyrocketing rent rates.

Why Renters Move: Affordability And How Your Property Can Compete

A look at why renters move, affordability and how your property can prove its value to renters in a time of skyrocketing rent rates. By Rachel Richardson With rising inflation and rent costs, budget concerns are causing...
No Wonder Smaller Landlords Want To Call It Quits

No Wonder Smaller Landlords Want To Call It Quits

Many smaller landlords are compelled to call it quits and get out of town as the more the rental market is regulated, the more “unintended consequences” arise creating more problems. By Ron Garcia Rental Housing Alliance...
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How A “Property Specialist” Can Streamline Your Rental

By Phil Schaller Being a landlord can be challenging. Finding the right tenants, navigating pandemics, ever-changing landlord/tenant laws, fixing the kitchen sink that’s leaking, the list goes on. Luckily here at RentalRiff, we’ve come up...
Landlords and renters are in it together as they work together towards energy efficiency in rentals.

The Opportunity to Increase Energy Efficiency in Rentals

Landlords and renters are in it together as they work together towards energy efficiency in rentals. By Greg Fasullo Consumers are increasingly seeking ways to decrease their carbon footprint and use energy more efficiently. The best...
Portable Cooling Devices and the ORLTA: How SB 1536 Affects You and Oregon

Portable Cooling Devices and the ORLTA: How SB 1536 Affects You

Portable cooling devices, Oregon SB 1536, and how this law impacts both landlords and tenants and the requirements it places on them. By Bradley S. Kraus Partner, Warren Allen LLP The 2022 legislative session has concluded. When...
Investors, Landlords Are Easy Targets for Fraud

Be Careful: Investors, Landlords Are Easy Targets for Fraud

Investors and landlords are easy targets for fraud because they have to put their information out there in many databases. By David Pickron Just last week I received an email that promised me the easy life. ...